History 162: World History Since 1500 Test 2 (Uw: Fond Du Lac)

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John Locke (1632-1704)

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argued that every person was born with a tabula rasa

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Montesquieu (1689-1755)

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frenchman who attempted to apply the scientific method to society and politics.

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Voltaire (1694-1778)

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Greatest figure of the Enlightenment. Playwright who followed deism.

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Diderot (1713-1784)

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Critic of Christianity, created an Encyclopedia.

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)

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Believed government was so that people could preserve private property

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Mary Wollstonecraft (1759-1797)

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Feminist, Enlightenment thinkers had contradicting views of women.

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Maximilien Robespierre (1758-1794)

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Leader of the Committee of Public Safety, which was in control of France from 1793 to 94.

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Toussaint L'Ouverture (1746-1803)

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Black slave at Saint Domingue who led a revolt.

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Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821)

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a military and political leader of France and Emperor of the French as Napoleon I, whose actions shaped European politics in the early 19th century.

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geocentric theory

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The theory, now superseded, that the Earth is the center of the universe and other objects go around it.

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heliocentric theory

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The astronomical theory that the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun and that the Sun is stationary and at the center of the universe.

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tabula rasa

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The epistemological thesis that individuals are born without built-in mental content and that their knowledge comes from experience and perception.

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philosophes

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The intellectuals of the 18th century Enlightenment.

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deism

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A religious and philosophical belief that a supreme being created the universe, and that this (and religious truth in general) can be determined using reason and observation of the natural world alone, without the need for either faith or organized religion.

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laissez-faire

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A doctrine opposing governmental interference in economic affairs beyond the minimum necessary for the maintenance of peace and property rights.

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nationalism

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A strong identification of one's social identity with that of a nation or state.

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Seven Years War (1756-1763)

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A major military conflict that involved all of the major European powers of the period. The war pitted Prussia and Great Britain and a coalition of smaller German states against an alliance consisting of Austria, France, Russia, Sweden, and Saxony.

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James Watt (1736-1819)

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Built an improved steam engine.

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Jose de San Martin (1778-1850)

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Argentinean who led a revolt against Spanish rulers.

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Simon Bolivar (1783-1830)

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Venezuela who led a revolt against Spanish rulers.

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Count Camillo di Cavour (CDC) (1810-1861)

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Prime minister of Piedmont and unified Italy.

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Count Otto von Bismark (OVB) (1815-1898)

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The ultimate realist.

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John Macdonald (1815-1891)

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Canadian who intended to invite America to invade until Britain granted Canada its freedom.

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Charles Darwin (1809-1882)

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Went to the Galapagos to study canaries.

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conservatism

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A political and social philosophy that holds that traditional institutions work best and that society should avoid radical change.

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liberalism

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The belief in the importance of liberty and equality.

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caudillos

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A political-military leader at the head of an authoritarian power.

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realpolitik

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Politics or diplomacy based primarily on practical considerations, rather than ideological notions or moralistic premises.

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romanticism

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A complex artistic, literary, and intellectual movement that originated in the second half of the 18th century in Western Europe, and gained strength in reaction to the Industrial Revolution.

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realism

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the school of thought that, following Plato, held that the individual objects that we perceive are not real but merely manifestations of universal ideas existing in the mind of God.

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Joseph Swan (1828-1914)

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Came up with the light-bulb at the same time as Edison.

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Karl Marx (1818-1883)

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Socialist who wrote the Communist Manifesto.

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Emmeline Pankhurst (1858-1928)

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British Suffragist

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Porfirio Diaz (1830-1915)

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Ruled Mexico from 1876 to 1910.

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Communist Manifesto

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published on February 21, 1848, The Communist Manifesto is one of the world's most influential political manuscripts. Commissioned by the Communist League and written by communist theorists Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels, it laid out the League's purposes and program.

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revisionism

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Various ideas, principles and theories that are based on a significant revision of fundamental Marxist premises.

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Cecil Rhodes

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British empire builder especially successful in diamonds

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Rudyard Kipling

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British Poet "The White Man's Burden"

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Emelio Aguinaldo

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key leader in the Philippines' Revolution

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Ram Mohan Roy

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Brahmin who created an organization to help defend the Hindu religion.

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assimilation

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political response to the demographic fact of multi-ethnicity which encourages absorption of the minority into the dominant culture.

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association

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a group of individuals who voluntarily enter into an agreement to accomplish a purpose

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Muhammad Ali

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